Saturday, 27 January 2018

January 2018 so far ...

The first month of a
fresh year had to be special. I was pretty excited about January 2018
right from the middle of December 2017 as it had something special to
offer.

The major events
which I attended or conducted were :

- MakerFest 2018 –
Ahmedabad

- Mozilla VR session
at Anibrain School of Media Design – Pune

MakerFest 2018 –
Ahmedabad

Attending MakerFest
has always been an exciting experience. I was not able to attend
MakerFest 2017 because of some personal reasons but I was totally
determinant about MakerFest 2018. New venue, new audience, new
function areas and a team of new Mozillians (I had not met these
folks earlier) had raised my spirits. With high ambitions, we started
off with the Mozilla presence at MakerFest 2018. We spoke about many
different things at the Mozilla booth; some of which created a buzz
in the entire arena. Firefox Quantum, Mozilla VR, Privacy and
Security, Rust, Web extensions, Locations and what not. The
confidence of the Mozillians and the enthusiasm of the audience was
just perfect. I enjoyed the MakerFest 2018 and the expectations are
getting higher and higher for the future variants.

Mozilla VR session
at Anibrain School of Media Design – Pune

Setting foot outside
your house on a typical Saturday morning could be boring at times but
this was not the case on 20th January. Reason being, the
much curious and super awesome participants at the Mozilla VR
workshop at the Anibrain School of Media Design – Pune. Right from
exploring the A-frame application source code to building a VR
application using A-frame were the scenes at the venue. It was not
just the students who were eager to learn some cool VR stuff but also
the in-house professors and trainers of the school. An active content
and a positive audience is something which makes a session perfect
and this kind of mixture was seen at the venue. It was a wonderful
experience being the event speaker and I would really appreciate the
facilitation by Pratiksha and Srushti at the event. I am very
thankful to the Faculty of Anibrain School of Media Design for
inviting us as the event speakers and for presenting a vibrant
participation and warm hospitality.